ROSEAU, Dominica, Jul 14, CMC -The Dominica government Monday announced plans for a limited gun amnesty, the establishment of a special unit to deal with firearm offences as well as the payment to persons providing information resulting in the seizure of discovery of illegal firearms.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit made the announcement after several people were killed and injured including a member of the Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair, who was shot in the buttocks last week as he walked in the capital, Roseau.
The man has since undergone surgery at the Dominica China Friendship Hospital and his condition is not considered to be life threatening.
Skerrit, who was flanked by the Minister of National Security, Rayburn Blackmoore, the Police Commissioner, Lincoln Corbette and other senior police officers, told reporters that over the past days, Dominica has witnessed troubling acts of gun violence.
“These incidents, brazen and reckless, have disrupted the peace and shaken the sense of safety that we hold dear as a people,” Skerrit said, offering his “deepest condolences to the family of the victim of these violent acts” and wishing them “a full and swift recovery.
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